April 21 (Reuters) - Copper prices rebounded on Thursday, bolstered by hopes of more stimulus in key metals consumer China to support its pandemic-hit economy and lingering concerns about supply from top producers Peru and Chile.
FUNDAMENTALS
* Benchmark three-month copper on the London Metal Exchange (LME) was up 0.7% at $10,294 a tonne, as of 0218 GMT, after dropping 0.8% on Wednesday.
* The most-active May copper contract on the Shanghai Futures Exchange rose 0.2% to 74,670 yuan ($11,639.91).
* Peru will declare a state of emergency near Southern Copper Corp's Cuajone mine, the country's prime minister said on Wednesday, as protests hit top mines in the Andean nation, halting 20% of national copper output.
* BHP Group Ltd cut its annual copper production outlook on Thursday as operations at its Escondida project in Chile took a hit from protests by workers and environmental activists, as well as labor shortages due to rising COVID-19 cases.
* The United States on Tuesday imposed sanctions on a Russian commercial bank, an oligarch and dozens of individuals, according to the Treasury Department website.
* Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday called for structural changes in Russia's metallurgical industry to counter Western sanctions.
* China's Contemporary Amperex Technology Co Ltd said on Thursday a subsidiary had won the rights to a lithium mine in the country's southern Jiangxi province for 865 million yuan ($134.76 million).
* COLUMN: Tin still flying high despite resurgent production: Andy Home
* China's central bank urged financial institutions to step up support for the contact-intensive service sector and small firms affected by the pandemic, it said on Wednesday.
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MARKETS NEWS
* Mainland China and Hong Kong stocks fell on Thursday, hurt by worries about the Chinese economy, but an overnight tumble in longer dated U.S. treasury yields lent support to other benchmark indexes.
DATA/EVENTS (GMT)
0645 France Business Climate Mfg April
0900 EU HICP Final MM, YY March
1230 US Initial Jobless Clm Weekly
1230 US Philly Fed Business Indx April
1400 EU Consumer Confid. Flash April
PRICES
Three month LME copper
Most active ShFE copper
Three month LME aluminum
Most active ShFE aluminum
Three month LME zinc
Most active ShFE zinc
Three month LME lead
Most active ShFE lead
Three month LME nickel
Most active ShFE nickel
Three month LME tin
Most active ShFE tin
($1 = 6.4150 yuan) (Reporting by Brijesh Patel in Bengaluru; Editing by Subhranshu Sahu)